Working with Minitab
About the Course
Designed for
This Introduction to Minitab training course is a 1 day programme, designed to provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of Minitab and its tools. At the end of this course attendees will be able to use Minitab to produce statistical analysis from data, use a number of tools to establish current performance, determine the most appropriate tool for the data and area of analysis and interpret results from the Minitab outputs.
Teaching Approach
The teaching approach contains a blend of lectures, and practical work. For the most part, participants are able to work at a pace which best suits them, and emphasis is placed upon quality of learning, rather than quantity.
Requirements
No previous experience of Minitab is required.
Course Material
The majority of this course is spent with a set of prepared exercises and projects so that those attending gain a firm foundation of Minitab’s capabilities. Professionally presented course notes are provided.
Duration
This training program is one day in duration.
Course Outline
Worksheet, Data Management
1 Introduction
The Minitab user interface
Projects and worksheets
Data types
Open and examine a worksheet
2 Graphing Data
Explore the data
Examine relationships between two variables
Arrange multiple graphs on one page
Save a Minitab project
3 Analyzing Data
Summarize the data
Compare two or more means
Use Minitab’s Project Manager
4 Assessing Quality
Assess process stability
Assess process capability
5 Designing an Experiment
Create a designed experiment
View the design
Enter data into the worksheet
Analyze the design
Use the stored model for additional analyses
6 Using Session Commands
Enable and enter session commands
Re-execute a series of commands
Repeat analyses with exec files
7 Generating a Report
Use the ReportPad
Save the report
Copy the report to a word processor
Send output to Microsoft PowerPoint
8 Preparing a Worksheet
Get data from different sources
Prepare the worksheet for analysis
9 Customizing Minitab
Set options
Create a custom toolbar
Assign a shortcut key
Restore Minitab’s default options